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A collection of short videos and audio podcasts of industry leaders....

People like Larry Page and Eric Schmidt who founded Google, and many others....

The topics include:

• Creativity & Innovation
• Opportunity Recognition
• Founding Team
• Product Development
• Marketing & Sales
• VC & Finance
• Leadership & Adversity
• Team & Culture
• Globalization
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Career & Life Balance
  

• Invention to Venture

MIT OpenCourseWare | Comparative Media Studies | CMS.930 Media, Education, and the Marketplace, Fall 2001 | Video Lectures

MIT OpenCourseWare | Comparative Media Studies | CMS.930 Media, Education, and the Marketplace, Fall 2001 | Video Lectures

you might enjoy listening to Metcalfe....

Techies get set for Austin's South by Southwest | CNET News.com

Techies get set for Austin's South by Southwest | CNET News.com

all the best from rue Barrault! ... just in case any of you are in Texas next year! happy Spring!

james

"What's not so well known is that SXSW, as the 10-day conference is commonly known, also boasts long-running and well-regarded interactive and film events that have their own registration requirements; schedules; and large, committed constituencies. These events kick things off, in fact, starting up on Friday.

These days, there's no shortage of conferences catering to bloggers, podcasters, Web site owners and anyone interested in the interactivity of the Internet. And that's to say nothing of the endless number of film festivals that start around Jan. 1 and go throughout the year, bringing hordes to just about every locale the world over."

Check this out !!! A brand new Blog on TV SHOWS !

Hi !!!

Come to our blog about TV Shows on http://vost.typepad.com !
We talk about :
- Lost
- Desperate Housewives
- Prison Break
- The OC
- ...

Olivier
a blogger for life ...

Technology Pros Move into Management - Tech

Technology Pros Move into Management - Tech & IT Job Resources from Monster.com:

Good news from Monster for all my java programmers that want a management position.

"Technology Pros Move into Management"
by Allan Hoffman


Monster Tech Jobs Expert

Technology professionals, once stereotyped as antisocial nerds unsuited for the boardroom, now routinely are taking management positions alongside colleagues with MBAs and years of experience in areas such as marketing, finance and human resources.

'The business world -- smart business, anyway -- is definitely more open to people with technical expertise moving into management these days,' says Gene De Libero, CEO of Ambient Media, a company that provides digital signage networks.

"

Do you love paintings ?

Dear MMNTers students,

check my father's website, you'll see some amazing paintings !

If you love African animals, you will enjoy your time on his homepage ...

http://bernardduffort.free.fr

Regards,
Olivier (Bloggers for life)

Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ?

Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ?

this is the shortcut to putting things on the blog!

MIT OpenCourseWare | Comparative Media Studies | CMS.930 Media, Education, and the Marketplace, Fall 2001 | Video Lectures

MIT OpenCourseWare | Comparative Media Studies | CMS.930 Media, Education, and the Marketplace, Fall 2001 | Video Lectures:

The Next Big Thing: Video Internet
a video lecture by Robert Metcalfe

Have you heard of MIT's OpenCourseWare project? This video lecture by Bob Metcalfe (say Ethernet!) about the convergence of the Internet and Video is very topical... even 4 years after his original lecture to MIT students. You might enjoy watching it. You could perhaps download it to your video iPod?

See you Monday!

james

Killer Innovations-- a weekly podcast 4 U

Killer Innovations

Killer Innovations
Unleashing the human potential to create

This is a must-read (and a must-listen) for all the MMNTers who are future entrepreneurs.....

Phil Mckenny talks about innovation and creativity...

His podcasts are fascinating, and instructive....
you can download them as mp3 files.

see you soon,
james


Here are all his previous podcasts:

Dec 05, 2005 - Innovation Rules and Virtual Anthropology
Nov 23, 2005 - Creating a Pipeline of Innovation and Tryvertising
Nov 13, 2005 - Cost Benefit Analysis of Innovations
Nov 6, 2005 - Futurecasting and Listener Contributions
Nov 1, 2005 - Team Diversity for Brainstorming
Oct 24, 2005 - Innovation Timing
Oct 17, 2005 - Innovation Mentoring
Oct 12, 2005 - Stealth Innovations
Oct 3, 2005 - Katrina Innovations
Sept 25, 2005 - Overcoming Your Idea Critics
Sept 19, 2005 - Building on the Innovation of Others
Sept 12, 2005 - Using Customers as a Source of Ideas
Sept 5, 2005 - Creating an Innovation Culture
Aug 28, 2005 - Idea Quota and Twinsumer
Aug 21, 2005 - Fast Prototyping
Aug 14, 2005 - Redefining the Innovation Opportunity
Aug 7, 2005 - Biology Based Innovations
July 31, 2005 - Emergent Innovations
July 24, 2005 - Innovation Success Rate
July 17, 2005 - Collaboration for Innovations
July 10, 2005 - Financial Criteria for Killer Innovations
July 3, 2005 - Storytelling & Weak Signals
June 26, 2005 - Measuring Innovation & Applying Killer Questions
June 20, 2005 - Structured Innovation Part 2 & Innovation Rate
June 14, 2005 - Structured Innovation & Perspective
June 6, 2005 - Scenario Planning & Computer Gaming
May 30, 2005 - Transforming the organization & alt industries
May 21, 2005 - Incremental Innovation & Sci-Fi
May 15, 2005 - Interview with Brain Reactions
May 7, 2005 - 2nd Generation Tools & Human Scale
May 1, 2005 - KI Workshop Warm-up and Differentiation
April 23, 2005 - 1st Generation Innovation Tools
April 17, 2005 - 10 Types of Innovation
April 13, 2005 - Ranking Ideas
April 10, 2005 - KI Workshop
April 3, 2005 - Killer Questions
March 26, 2005 - Innovating the 'experience economy'
March 22, 2005 - Barriers to innovation

Wikipedia and the nature of truth | Perspectives | CNET News.com

Wikipedia and the nature of truth | Perspectives | CNET News.com:
After Aurelie and Jean-Philippe's talk about Wikipedia I thought this might interest you... :-)

Also, Franck asked about what I like to read... cNet's news.com is one source I like among many.... here's what they say about Wikipedia. Follow the link above to discover more :

"Perhaps the most recognized application of open-source technology in the world, Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia that has become a research staple for millions of Web users.
Written collaboratively by volunteers, Wikipedia has become a smash success. The free site includes more than 845,000 articles in English alone and has won a loyal legion of fans. John Seigenthaler does not number among them.

In an op-ed published Thursday in USA Today, Seigenthaler wrote about his anguish after learning about a false Wikipedia entry that listed him as having been briefly suspected of involvement in the assassinations of both John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. " .....

BBC2 goes mad for broadband - Broadband & ISPs - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com

Broadband and the BBC TV... wow!

BTW... Do you know this online journal: silicon.com??? This is not your weekly Newsweek!

more soon
james

BBC2 goes mad for broadband - Broadband & ISPs - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com

Technorati tags: bbc broadband

InternetNews Realtime News for IT Managers

InternetNews Realtime News for IT Managers

This is not your Newsweek or Time magazine!

I haven't seen all of you recently... :-( but I'm thinking of you...

I'm sending you interesting IT media sites as I come across them.


see you (all?) soon

james

Institute for Backup Trauma

Institute for Backup Trauma

Do you remember John Cleese from the MontyPython shows? He's in this 6 minute video.

It's a funny ad for a startup that was first shown at the Demo Conference two years ago. you don't know about the demo.com conferences ??? Have a look...



For me the videos of the demos aren't functioning (look in the archive of 2005... ) Do they work for you? Leave a comment on this message to let the others know....

I imagine some of you will be pitching your startups at the Demo Conference in a few years!

see you (I hope!) next Thursday.

james

New York Times Video

New York Times Video

here's the video reports on the new york times site!

David Pogue is the business speak report we watched!

have a nice weekend!
j

Triumph of the Nerds: The Transcripts, Part III

Triumph of the Nerds: The Transcripts, Part III: "sugar"

Benedicte, Yorick and James (and some ghosts) were looking at this PBS broadcast... here is the script for your reading pleasure!

Stay tuned for the other things you missed like the PHB!

yours truly

j

Technology Trivia Archive

Technology Trivia Archive

I thought you might enjoy this!

james


ps... remember no MMNT English classes this week. :-(

a4esl.org/p = Easy Online RSS Reader for ESL/EFL Podcasts

a4esl.org/p = Easy Online RSS Reader for ESL/EFL Podcasts
podcasts for the native speakers and also for learners of English...

give it a spin!

james

CEO Bloggers' Club: Trends & Strategy

CEO Bloggers' Club: Trends & Strategy:
This is an interesting blog.... a group of CEOs contribute their thoughts!

read on....


"US VC Insights"

Allen Morgan, one of the General Partners of 'Tier 1' west coast firm Mayfield, has just finished his '10 Commandments' series of posts. Any first-time entrepreneur planning to seek VC financing at some point will find worth reading and reflecting on Allen's interesting insights. I always say in such circumstance that no one should take 'VC Do's and Don'ts' literally because each startup and each fund are particular. However Allen's points are often practical, and sometimes candid, and can be applied to many (first timer's) situations. Here they are:

1. Do your homework, and contact the right person
2. Be on time
3. Tease, don't overwhelm
4. Know your audience
5. Create the 'Aha' early
6. Explain the idea by analogy to, or contrast with, older ideas
7. Go with 13 or less slides
8. Know what you don't know -- and admit it
9. Be like Goldilocks, when it comes to competition
10. Control the meeting -- but be smart about it

Congratulations to Allen for taking the time to put these thoughts 'on paper', they are a great complement to Brad's own contribution on clarifying financing terms that are found in typical US termsheets. I should also have mentioned the three part series on 'Saying No' that Bill Burnham has recently published. Why ? Because it is critical for entrepreneurs to 'read' through Yes, No's and Maybe's. Ross provided the entrepreneur perspective with which I agree.

Cross-post from Software Only.

Posted by Jeff Clavier on April 8, 2005 at 05:55 PM in Trends & Strategy | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack"

BBC - Radio 4 - News - In Business 3 November 2005

This is the In Business BBC radio programme! Interesting! and you can download it and listen to it on your mp3 or on your computer!

see you Thursday,

james


We try to make ear-grabbing programmes about the whole world of work, public and private, from vast corporations to modest volunteers.

In Business is all about change. New ways of work and new technologies are challenging most of the assumptions by which organisations have been run for the last 100 years. We try to report on ideas coming over the horizon, just before they start being talked about. We hope it is an exhilarating ride.
Peter Day



PROGRAMME DETAILS
Thursday 3 November 2005
The Millau Viaduct , the world's tallest bridge.
Millau Viaduct, the world's tallest bridge

Engineering Success

Once they were at the heart of social and economic progress. As people try to find a way to fix today's problems, engineers are going to turn into our heroes of tomorrow.

Peter Day talks to some people in the profession who are already leading the way.

Steve Smyth
Shell Education Service

Roger Chapman
Managing Director, James Fisher Rumic

James Cameron
Founder and Executive Director, Climate Change Capital

Dan Davies
Chief Technology Officer, Solar Century

Steve Lainson
Head of Mechanical Design, James Fisher Nuclear

Andrew Ives
President, Institute of Mechanical Engineers

Jenny Goodman
Engineering Student Oxford and member of Team Green

Peter Head
Partner, Arup

Work in Progress

Peter Day writes a weekly column for News Interactive.

Read this week's Work in Progress.">BBC - Radio 4 - News - In Business 3 November 2005: "PROGRAMME DETAILS
Thursday 3 November 2005
The Millau Viaduct , the world's tallest bridge.
Millau Viaduct, the world's tallest bridge

Engineering Success

Once they were at the heart of social and economic progress. As people try to find a way to fix today's problems, engineers are going to turn into our heroes of tomorrow.

Peter Day talks to some people in the profession who are already leading the way.

Steve Smyth
Shell Education Service

Roger Chapman
Managing Director, James Fisher Rumic

James Cameron
Founder and Executive Director, Climate Change Capital

Dan Davies
Chief Technology Officer, Solar Century

Steve Lainson
Head of Mechanical Design, James Fisher Nuclear

Andrew Ives
President, Institute of Mechanical Engineers

Jenny Goodman
Engineering Student Oxford and member of Team Green

Peter Head
Partner, Arup

Work in Progress

Peter Day writes a weekly column for News Interactive.

Read this week's Work in Progress."

French overutre

I dare to write some lines about a phenomenon, that cannot be correctly depicted by someone from the outside. I have never lived in the suburbs, and only had a few (tough) contacts with it.

But I feel deeply sad about a situation that grew from the early 60s, that politicians at best managed to stabilize. But here is not my point. I want to write here only about things that we, executives in a close future, could change. Something that will spur on the determination of the young underdogs from French ghettos to try their best at school, to show the way to their little brothers and to give an end to the gap between inner citys and their suburbs. I mean something that goes beyond tolerance, the end of discrimination at work in terms of origin, place of living or colour of the skin. Too many French firms do not reflect the diversity of our population. We have the means to change this in a good way, I think.

As a conclusion, here is a few words from Haile Selassie that became a famous song from Bob Marley :
"What life has taught me, I would like to share with those who want to learn...
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. That until there are no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes..."